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lezavick Island from the main land of Labrador. This was the point 
which had been previously assumed to be fittest for the purposes of the 
During Saturday, July 14, a location was fixed on’ for the encamp- 
ment, and some progress was made in the shore arrangements. The 
tion of the party to sleep on board of her, and thus to avoid ‘some 
of the discomforts of camp life, which, in a region so bleak and dismal, 
ar means: trifling. Others, including the meteorologists, the 
e members of astronomical corps in 
it is mentioned that several of the tents were blown down almost 
immediately after their erection; and that a wind as disagreeable for a 
Piercing chilliness as for its force prevailed with little intermission during 
® entire stay of the expedition, amounting to eleven days. e tents 
When reérected, were secured, or anchored, by piling rocks upon the 
margin of the canvass. 
The exact latitude of the observing station was a few seconds short 
of 59° 48’; the longitude, by chronometer, 4h 16m 538 west from 
Wich 
eicarqeecorer te 
et had the landing been effected when there commenced a storm 
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an 
pega, the sky was more than half covered. The sun was, however, ig 
ag 
during the progress of the eclipse. Clouds were, however, continually 
ring total obscuration to be visi- 
ne point of 
2 thess and " of ona; and this may serve a 
ee metal Purpose hereafter, in corroborating observations elsewhere made, 
